Vendors with app managers include Net Nanny, App Lock, and Smart AppLock.
Using a Bluetooth daughter card in the lock mechanism, a couple Bluetooth antennas and a clever app this lock opens by simply touching a finger to the outside of the housing when you approach the door.
Through the app you can lock doors, adjust your thermostat, turn on and off lights or appliances and check your security cameras.
Apple should not be worried by this at all. iOS 5 has a huge amount of support and goodwill, and they still have the immense app and media lock in afforded by the iTunes music store.
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And without trust, app developers may find that users or app store platforms will lock down the data.
The menus and icons are all drawn in Samsung's TouchWiz style, though there are some new additions, including lock screen app shortcuts.
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With Siri, someone can inquire about what's playing in theaters nearby, navigate to that theater using Apple's Maps app and present the ticket stub from the lock screen, all invoking Apple's app working with its selected partners.
We spent some time with it, and while we're impressed with the new lock screen, honeycomb app launcher, and browser, it's obviously just a paint job -- it's still kinda laggy and the media features haven't been changed at all.
To that end, it has more system controls than the existing Facebook app, with permission to turn off the lock screen, start up when the phone boots and control your WiFi connection, among others.
There's also integration with a home energy management system, which allows the owner to adjust air conditioning and lock the front door via a smartphone app.
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The app can run in the background, and your lock screen wallpaper even turns into the current navigation step, so you won't be tempted to touch your phone and unlock the screen.
This is a huge step forward, and the app even helps the camera's GPS get a lock.
The app provides you with guides, quoins and magnets to lock elements and letters in place during the printing process.
Battery life for the four AAs is rated for a year, and you've no need to worry about being surprised by an outage, either: the system will notify you well in advance using the lock's eight RGB LEDs or through the app.
This is all made possible because Android allows third-party companies to alter the lock screen and other core features, such as the app launcher, which displays app icons and widgets.
And for any notifications in lock screen, you can slide finger across it, and go directly to app that sent it.
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